Soziale Schichtung in der industriellen Gesellschaft

By (author) M. Rainer Lepsius Preface by Oliver Lepsius Introduction by Wolfgang Schluchter

Book cover: Soziale Schichtung in der industriellen Gesellschaft

Extent: 181 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: German Studies, Social Sciences 

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(October 2015)

ISBN: 9783161541681

6.34 x 10.08 inches

Price: $111.00

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This volume contains M. Rainer Lepsius’ previously unpublished habilitation treatise on a theory of inequality in industrial societies which goes beyond 19th century’s class-analysis as well as the theory of destratification.


English summary: This posthumously-published habilitation treatise contains M. Rainer Lepsius’ theory of industrial society inequality which goes beyond 19th century’s class-analysis or the theory of destratification. Its structural-cultural approach puts the problem of legitimation of inequality among legally equal citizens to the forefront, includes some lasting insights into this problem and provides an interesting view of the debate in German sociology during the Federal Republic’s early years. German description: Die bisher unveroffentlichte Habilitationsschrift von M. Rainer Lepsius aus dem Jahre 1963 enthalt eine Theorie der Ungleichheit in Industriegesellschaften, die vom Veralten der Klassentheorie des 19. Jahrhunderts ausgeht, aber auch die These von der eingetretenen Entschichtung oder Nivellierung kritisiert (“nivellierte Mittelstandsgesellschaft”). Es handelt sich um eine Untersuchung, die nach wie vor richtungweisende Uberlegungen zur Ungleichheitsproblematik enthalt und zudem ein interessantes Dokument der soziologischen Diskussion in der fruhen Bundesrepublik darstellt.

is Professor of Public Law and Constitutional Theory at the University of Münster.

  • By (author) M. Rainer Lepsius
  • Preface by Oliver Lepsius
  • Introduction by Wolfgang Schluchter